‘JEEVAN’ – Training Program to conduct Life Skills sessions

[Shalu Mehrotra]

Hello!

Quite a few of you called/msgd me regarding wanting to enroll for ‘Jeevan’ – Life Skills module. However, you have not done the formality of registration. I would like to give seats first to ex ADC people and then put it up on CAI and other places.  Though the last date is 17^th of July, its first come first serve basis till seats are full. (20 seats). So please register in the next 4-5 days itself.

Hope you are enjoying the rains!!!

Shalu

The details are given below again for your perusal.

 

 

There is an increasing need for today’s youth to be more equipped in handling life. Life is tough and young people need skills to encounter life productively. Prafulta Psychological Services offers JEEVAN, a training program for counsellors/teachers trained in counselling/special educators/ social workers who take group sessions, to conduct sessions in Life Skills for students.

 

Life Skills are abilities for adaptive and empowering behaviour that enable individuals to deal with the demands and challenges of everyday living in a constructive way. Life skills are individual abilities that each one possesses and yet needs to enhance in order to meet the daily challenges of life. Effective acquisition of life skills can influence the way one feels about oneself and others. It enhances one’s productivity, efficacy, self-esteem and self-confidence. Life Skills also provide tools and techniques to improve interpersonal relations.

 

·         ‘JEEVAN’, the Life Skills programme, trains counsellors to take sessions with students on issues like handling peer pressure, coping with stress, handling relationships with the opposite sex, interaction with parents, managing anger, dealing with conflicts and many more.

 

·        The programme will give hands on, experiential learning to the participants. The training will have practicum where participants will take sessions during the programme and receive feedback for it. This experiential methodology will equip them to conduct Life Skills sessions independently in the classrooms.

 

Programme details:

Dates: 27^th July (Saturday), 28^th July (Sunday), 4^th August (Sunday)

Time: 9.30am-3.30pm, Venue: Youth Services Hall, Don Bosco, Matunga

Cost: Rs. 3200/- per participant

Cheques to be made in favour of:  ‘Prafulta Counselling Centre’

Application Forms to be sent to: Prafulta Psychological Services, St Dominic Savio Institution, Off Mahakali Caves Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai – 400093.

Ph:28302323 / 28373739 / 28200248 Email: prafult...@gmail.com

Last Date of registration: 17^th July 2013 (first come first serve basis, registration may stop if we are full before last date)

Details required for registration: Name, Address, Email Id, Mobile number, Place of work of participant

 

Facilitator: Ms. Shalu Mehrotra

I have been working as a therapist for the last 17 years. I have done my Masters in Applied Psychology from Delhi University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology from St Xavier’s Institute of Education, Mumbai.

My experience as a therapist at various schools and colleges has shown that besides individual counseling, students also need group sessions which act as preventive mental health care. Helping students with life skills helps them not reach extreme level of difficulties. Students also enjoy and learn more with peer sharing. Group sessions also help motivate individuals who are unaware they have problems, to seek and receive help they need.  Life Skills sessions can also be helpful for adults. This programme can be adapted for that purpose.